Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tremendous thunderclap, the Grandcamp vanished. Hot steel screamed uptown. A flaming wall of oil-covered water rolled over the docks as the blast picked up a steel barge and flung it 100 yards inland. Two light planes that had been circling over the harbor plummeted down together with 300-lb. chunks of ship's steel. Then, in a splitting series of explosions (one of which flipped a fire truck on top of the beached barge), the Monsanto plant and most of the rest of the waterfront blew...
...Class Fascist." By then the House was deep in invective over another sort of execution-the Government's "guillotine" to speed two of its key measures (nationalization of inland transport, and town-&-country planning). Churchill stormed that the Government motion to cut off committee discussion was "strangulation of parliamentary debate . . . legislation by Government decree." Stung by ironic cheers from the Labor side, he lashed at the "idea of the government of the people, by the officials, for the party bosses," cried that "the liberties and the free life of Britain are in great danger" from Socialism...
...what pieces would be played during the season, but no control over what guest conductors played, no say in the choice of his guests and soloists unless the board and Judson chose to consult him. Rodzinski was fuming over these terms when Edward L. Ryerson, board chairman of Inland Steel Co. and head of the Chicago Symphony, called on him in Manhattan during the holidays...
...Navy had not flown far inland. The blank space beyond the South Pole was still the haziest, most mysterious area on anyone's map. It might be a featureless ice plain or it might be ridged with peaks higher than Mt. XRay...
...Inland from the beautiful, tropic Malabar coast, with its network of backwaters, Communists ambushed police in jungle areas and even dug trenches for battles fought with sticks and spears. In Tanjore, the densely populated, highly irrigated "garden of southern India," they scorched the fertile earth into a desert. Mobs of several thousand laborers drove away landlords and took possession of all available land. Prakasam said the Communists had an espionage system throughout the Madras Secretariat, and regularly published confidential government correspondence...